As a sports player, if you're not marketed well by your coach or manager then you could be missing wonderful opportunities which you deserve including sponsorship and jobs.
A senior sports coach in India said that when someone would win a medal then they'll do marketing. I said that sports players should be marketed from the start like when the players participate in small sports events.
This way the coaches and the managers would help the careers of sports players because when the sports activities of the players would be publicized regularly then more people could learn about the sports players and which could help the sports players to get sponsorship and also more motivation if the player starts to grow a fan following.
Moreover, this would help the sports players to get other jobs later if they'll have much of their sports details online because people with jobs would be able to find them better.
This would also help the sport because the new people wanting to join it would see that they'll have much better support from coaches and manager for their careers.
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